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Europe: The rhetoric and reality of Roma rights: Op-Ed

By Amnesty International, 4 April 2013, Index number: EUR 01/009/2013

As “International Roma Day” is celebrated, one of Europe’s largest ethnic minorities faces increasingly widespread discrimination, racially-motivated violence, forced evictions and segregation. The European Commission must start using all the instruments at its disposal to tackle the multiple forms of discrimination, racism and other human rights violations experienced by the Roma in Europe.